Mission Phase 1

Otherworldly Visitor

"Setsuna, is this fine?" a calm, disembodied voice spoke from within an odd cockpit like area. A small holographic figure appeared of a young purple haired man appeared from a console within the cockpit not but a second later. "Are you really going to travel through the galaxy? What about your promise to Princess Ismail?" Though it was a low blow, the figure knew that the pilot had promised to return to her side once they had finally understood one another.

"I have not reached that point in the road for me Tieria Erde," came the calm reply nearly a minute later. Setsuna F. Seiei, or rather Soran Ebrahim, had long contemplated whether or not he was ready to face Marina Ismail once more after stopping the attacking ELS. Despite all he had gone through and learned, the pilot could not help but feel he had reached the answer he was looking for. He was still pondering why humans could develop such errant darkness within their hearts that could consume them to the point of becoming psychopaths. The answer still eluded him, and he could not hope to face her if his heart could not understand her own.

And thus why Setsuna F. Seiei, part Innovator and now part ELS, had decided to travel the universe to discover more about humanity, the human heart, and the universe itself.

Tieria regarded his fellow Gundam Meister and sighed quietly, a small smile on his face. "If that's what you want, then that is fine."

"You know you could have stayed behind if you did not wish to accompany me." A quick chuckle from the Innovade had the pilot of the hybrid ELS 00 Qan [T] raising an eyebrow. "What?"

"It's nothing. If anything, the moment you said you wanted to see the universe I decided I needed to see it too." He smiled up at his fellow Gundam Meister and friend. "I want to understand this world as much as you Setsuna F. Seiei." The Innovade smirked and teasingly added, "Besides, traveling alone for a long time gets lonely."

"Then I should have brought Lockon." His dry wit once more resurfaced, causing the holographic man to give an uncharacteristic guffaw. Setsuna just smiled in return and looked to the vast void before him. "Ready?"

"Indeed."

Closing his eyes, Setsuna called upon his hybrid ELS and Innovator powers to assist him in exploring the universe. The 'eyes' of the ELS 00 Qan [T] flashed green while the Mass GN Drive in its chest flared to life, circulating GN particles to the entirety of the mobile suit along with its 'wings', giving the alien mobile suit an ethereal glow while being surrounded by small particles of green light.

"Quantum Leap." The moment the command left Setsuna's lips the wings attached to the back of the ELS 00 Qan [T] formed a ring behind it, each of the wing tips resonating a magnificent green light. When a ring of light formed around the ELS 00 Qan [T] it moved forward, engulfing the mobile suit and turning into GN Particles.

What was unexpected however was the solar wave that struck out of nowhere at the last possible second, just as Setsuna was about to finish the Quantization process, feeding an unimaginable amount of power into the Quantum Leap he had completed a nanosecond later. Instead of leaping throughout the universe, Setsuna had instead been fed enough power to leap through universes and time.

"Captain, new contact! Blue twenty, orange fifteen! It's a mobile suit, it just appeared on our scanners!" Sai Argyle shouted from his station in the CIC of the Archangel.

"Is it the Blitz?" Murrue Ramius asked as she turned to the teen. She had a somewhat intimate knowledge of how each of their, former, mobile suits worked. Only the Blitz made sense to have suddenly appeared on their sensors with the use of its Mirage Colloid stealth system. But that made no sense to uncloak that far away if the Blitz were to ambush the Archangel.

"No ma'am." A second later a growl came from the young man. "I can't pick it up anymore!"

"What?!" Natarle Badgiruel shouted from her position in the CIC. "That's impossible! Didn't you just have it?!"

"I did!" he shouted as he frantically tried to recalibrate the sensors, hoping beyond hope that he could pick the mobile suit up again. He could not. With a tired sigh he replied, "I can only get a visual on it. That's all." The orange haired teen then pressed a button that brought up the high-sensor camera feed and zoomed it in on the mobile suit.

"W-What is that thing?" Natarle asked with wide eyes. Everyone on the bridge, including the just arrived Kira Yamato and Mu La Flaga, were staring in both awe and silent terror at the machine displayed on the screen before them.

"A G-Weapon? Out here?" Now Murrue was worried. If another one of those machines was produced in secret that they had no idea about, then things would turn from bad to worse for the Earth Alliance if ZAFT dug their talons into this mobile suit.

"A Gundam," Kira murmured quietly to himself as he beheld the angelic if somewhat alien machine displayed on the main monitor. There was just something otherworldly and ethereal about that just made one want to gaze upon for eternity just to know there was something more out there.

"Did someone just say Gundam?" a somewhat curious is calm tone floated through the minds of everyone. All eyes were now upon the mobile suit as it seemed to fly gracefully closer to the Archangel. A moment later an alarm went off as Tolle shouted, "We're being hacked into!"

"Please, do not be alarmed. We have only tapped into your communications feed so at to speak with you face to face," the calm voice floated from the speakers on the bridge while an image of a silver being appeared on the communications screen. The, for lack of a better term, alien was humanoid in figure, though its eyes were like the solar flares of the sun. "I wish to know who spoke of Gundam."

"I-I did." While his mobile suit, the GAT-X105 Strike, was not called a Gundam technically, he still dubbed it, and its sister machines, as Gundam after their Operating Systems. It just sounded stronger with Gundam in its name. "Your machine, it's a Gundam."

"Yes it is." The being then paused for a moment and closed its eyes. "How do you know of Gundam?"

"I pilot one?" came the confused reply. Actually, that was kind of a stupid response, seeing as he was being glared at by Natarle for revealing the fact he was the pilot of the Strike. He could have just as easily replied he had worked on one instead of outright saying he piloted one.

"You are a Gundam Meister?"

"Eh?"

"Then you are not a Gundam Meister?"

"I don't even know what that a Gundam Meister is!"

The being paused for a moment as it closed its eyes once, almost as if it were communicating with something with how long it took for it to speak once more. "May I dock in your ship?"

"Come again?" Murrue asked as she had not been expecting this from where the conversation started.

"I am out of my depth currently at this moment. I do not know where I am, or when I am," Setsuna added under his breath. "I wish to calmly discuss these matters with you face to face."

"Granted," came the response of Murrue after a minute of internal debate later.

"Captain!" Natarle shouted, but was then silenced by a raised hand from her Commanding Officer.

"However, if our ship comes under attack, could I request your assistance in protecting it?" she asked as she regarded the pilot of the strange mobile suit.

"So long as I am not asked to take a life, then I will help protect your ship," the pilot replied as he watched the likely Captain of the ship command for the hanger bay to be opened. Setsuna waited a minute before the hanger bay on the left 'leg' opened. As he flew the ELS 00 Qan [T] into the hanger bay and then retracted its wings, his eyes widened as he beheld the grey mobile suit near the end of the hanger. There was no doubting what it was.

"Gundam."

Once he had landed his mobile suit and powered it down, Setsuna waited in his cockpit until a welcoming committee would arrive to greet him. About four minutes later four armed personnel arrived at the catwalk leading to his cockpit along with the Gundam pilot, the blonde man, Captain and more than likely Second-in-Command.

"Please, lower your weapons." Setsuna's calm voice flitted through the air. "I know it is just for show, but I am truthful that I mean none of you harm." When none of the security personal lowered their rifles, Setsuna sighed and opened the cockpit hatch. He then stepped out and walked forward, arms at his sides.

"Hands in the air!" the leader of the security detail shouted, the fear in his voice barely contained as he beheld the metallic humanoid alien.

"I am unarmed."

"I said hands!"

"That is unnecessary." He then took a step forward that caused one of the security detail, a young woman, who had her family killed in a ZAFT attack, to fire her rifle and hit the alien square in the chest out of fright and then proceed to scream. Had Setsuna been human anymore, then he would have more than likely been dead cold. Since becoming an ELS, he no longer had true organs or a human anatomy for that matter.

All eyes stared at Setsuna as he just calmly willed his body to spit the bullet out into his hand. "I wasn't sure if that was going to hurt or not," the Innovator muttered with a befuddled expression.

The rather dry wit the being had along with its own surprised visage had Mu chuckling quietly while Kira was giggling like mad beside him. Though Murrue glared at the two in admonishment, she too could see a funny side in this, even if it would have been life threatening to anyone other than the alien.

"Jokes aside, I am sorry about that." Murrue then nodded to Natarle who ordered the security detail to lower their weapons.

"It's fine," Setsuna shrugged as he looked over the gathered group, his Innovator eyes landing on the young woman who had shot at him. She seemed to shrink back from his gaze. "I could sense the great unease in her heart the moment she laid eyes on me. She more than likely has a great fear of what space holds."

The female soldier just ducked her head, looking anywhere but the others around her who were more than likely giving her pitying looks. "Please do not pity her. Fear is understandable as we humans do not understand that which we do not know. It is hatred and rage that should frowned upon, for it drives the human heart to do terrible things."

"'We humans'?" Murrue repeated as if what the alien said was entirely insane since it was in fact an alien and not a human.

"My name is Setsuna F. Seiei," the alien introduced itself. "I am humanity's first ever Innovator. I am also humanity's first ever ELS hybrid. I am a Gundam Meister of Celestial Being and pilot of the Hybrid 00 Quanta."

"Well," Mu began as he was the first to pick up his jaw from the ground. "That's an introduction." Everyone just gave him a dry look, causing the blonde man to grin and shrug his shoulders, arms up in defeat.

AN: Don't kill me! If you are new to my account then you're probably salivating that I posted a Gundam 00 and Gundam Seed crossover. If you're from my other fanfics having gotten a notice that I posted a new story: please don't kill me! I know some of my other works have been gathering dust, but I'm working on them! Please be patient! Serenity's chapter is 25% done and Souma and Erina chapter is 10% done. So please, give me just a few more days to post them! I promise! Don't kill me! And if Miya's here:

Don't kill me babe! And I'll make sure Souma and Erina go up first! Just five days! Please, give me five days!

Begging aside, what did you think? Review with your unbiased thoughts, and please, no Kira Yamato Cultism. Anything but that. I will respect a thought out review, not a rant. And no bashing in your reviews. I want intelligence, not immaturity.